what to get a 2.5yr iold for xmas?

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i am stuck totally for dd3. all i can think of is pirates and disney cars.

she has loads of stuff passed down from dd1+2.

[sighs]

what about the barbie doll on an elephant?

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I think I may get that for dd2(who'll also be nearly two and a half at Christmas.

Dresing-up stuff?

no no, no barbie. sorry! dd's just dont play with them, and recently took a load of them down to the charity shop.

hmmm dressing up stuff, can i find a pirate outfit that small?

she loves having her face painted, so shall i buy myself more paints for xmas and then paint her face lol.

A scooter?

bit young for a scooter? plus i think there is already a smaller one in the shed which the other two have grown out of off. she has a bike, passed down from dd1.

Someone bought dd1 a fairy outfit from ELC for her 2nd birthday... they probably do pirate outfits in the same size?

notnowbernard - is your name taken from the Shirley Hughes books?

No, David McKee

Was dd1's favourite story at time of joining MN

thank you!

I'm going to have the same problem in a few years time wiht my own dd3! Is hard enough thinking of things for dd2 who is 3 years younger than dd1....

I sympathize!
is there a special dvd? Jungle Book is being rereleased in Nov I think, am getting that for dd2 as she loves the cd and knows most of the songs

Misdee, I am sure you can get a pirate outfit as ds3 had one for his 3rd birthday that fitted a treat and he is a bit small for his age. The ELC do them.

Woolies do a girl pirate costume - I think in small size...

when i last looked in ELC the smallest pirate outfi they did was age 3-4. she is still in 18-24month clothes.

Have a browse online?

This wasn't the one they used to do but...

www.woolworths.co.uk/web/jsp/product/index.jsp?pid=50843704

How about decorating her room along a pirate/paradise island/ seaside theme instead? We're doing a Nemo mural for DD for Xmas instead of presents! You can wrap up the accessories you find for it for her to open on Christmas morning?

Or maybe that's odd and would only go down well in my house

DS2 IS having
bob the builder lego (3 for 2 toys in boots)
a couple of books of his own (we have loads but they are reallys ds1s)
some cars (obsessed)
some colouring stuff (obsessed)
roary the racig car (boots again)
and maybe some in the night garden figures

she wants (as well as dd2, they share a room) a dragons and knights bedroom.

i have two tomboys and one girly girl.

oooh ds1 had a kinghts and dragons book from the book people for 2.99

there is a fab book called george and the dragon. george is a mouse

The ELC pirate costume is very flexible though. The trousers are supposedly cut off so would still fit a shorter child, and the jacket has no sleeves so again would fit a lot of sizes. My ds3 was in 18-24 month clothes when he got his. He still wears it now and he is 4 but can wear 2-3 clothes.

She sounds fab! I love it, pirates and dragons and knights. How about some things that aren't strictly toys but will be great for her imaginative play, eg a wooden storage chest filled with chocolate coins, play beads etc as a Treasure Chest, or big pieces of stiff card cut into shield shapes with craft items so she can make her own coat of arms?

Ooh, I want to come and play at your house now!

she is very good fun. makes a good change from all sparkly princess stuff.

she has 'pirate' welly boots (blue with skills and crossbones on, some skulls have bandanas, very cartoony, not freaky) and pirtaes of carribean water bottle. an older boy asked her why she had a boys water bottle, she just went 'yarrrr pirates' at him lol.

M&S had little pirate stuff in today - girls stuff as well as boys....